The 5th Annual Mariann Blum Memorial Lectureship, sponsored by the Department of Pharmacology and the Center for Biomedical Neuroscience, will be held at noon on Friday, March 28, 2008 in room 309L.

Phyllis M. Wise, Ph.D.,,Provost and Executive Vice President, University of Washington, will present Estrogens: Their complex role in protecting the brain against neurodegeneration.